Word: rails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could create the worst transportation snarl in the nation's history. The Government has already invoked the Railroad Labor Act's 60-day grace period to prevent a strike and now is helpless to act beyond presidential persuasion or special authority from Congress or the courts. A rail strike could idle up to 630,000 workers, halt commuter service and sidetrack as much as 30% of all military traffic...
DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...
Thin as a Ticket. The margin of the decision was about as thin as a rail road ticket: the vote to delay the merger until the ICC devises proper protections for the little railroads...
...part, the ICC was plainly worried. The commission has been trying to handle rail mergers one by one for the sake of speed and economy and Justice William Brennan, siding with the majority, wrote a strong opinion stating that it ought to go back to the old, laborious system of considering all regional mergers together. As for the railroads involved, they were, in the words of Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders, "disappointed but not disheartened." Though the Supreme Court spoke of a "very short delay," the complications it unraveled last week may well keep the merger hanging for two or three...
...Chicago's first police-force detective, went into the private-eye business on his own in 1850. Later he organized a kind of CIA for Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton unearthed one assassination plot against Lincoln, spirited the President-elect to Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent the postwar years chasing such outlaws as the Reno Boys and the James Brothers. About the only tarnished spot...